Overalls



(NoModeL) A. O. SPENCER.

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No.235 ,5s7. "Patentd'Dec.14,1880.

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ALVA G. SPENCER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 235,587, dated December 14;, 1880.

Application filed September 17, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, ALVA G. SPENoEn, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Overalls, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to re-enforce the seat and crotch of overalls and pantaloons, so as to prevent the disrupture incident to the excessive strain of said parts; and it consists in a peculiar construction of a stay formed in one piece and with three branches radiating from the crotch, and secured, respectively, to the button-hole strip, button-strip, and over the seam of the seat, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are two views of overalls, showing, respectively, opposite sides of one of the flies for better illustration of the application of my invention. Fig. 3 is a view of the strip of which my improved stay is formed; and Fig. 4: shows the form of said stay detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

ff represent the button strip and buttonhole strip, respectively, of overalls or pantaloons, said strips being usually termed the fly. One of the weakest parts of said garments is the crotch at the junction of the fly and the seam from said crotch through the seat, owing to the excessive strain on said parts. To. guard against disrupture of the same I employ a strip of cloth or other suitable materialof a shape similar to that shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This strip I divide longitudinally part wayits length, as indicated by the line (2. The undivided portion a, I fold on the dotted line 6, as shown in Fig. 4. of the drawings, and apply the foldedparts, respectively, to opposite sides of the fly f.

The section I) of the divided end of the strip I extend over theseam d of the seat and secure it to the latter, and the other section,c,I extend along the inside of the fly f, and attach it thereto, thus forming a complete tie across the crotch and along the seam of the seat by continuous strips, and re-enforcing said parts, so as to effectually prevent disruption of the same.

Having described my invention, whatIclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with overalls. or pantaloons, of the fly stay-strips a, c, and b, formedof one piece and extended, respectively, from one fiy,f, to the other fly, f, and over the seam d of the seat, substantially as described and shown.

2. In pantaloons or overalls, the within-described stay, formed of one strip of cloth or other suitable material, divided part way its length and applied with its undivided part a on both sides of the fly f, with the part b to the fly f, and with the part 0 over the seam d of the seat, substantially in the manner described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, this 9th day of September, 1880.

ALVA U. SPENCER.

\Vitnesses E. LAASS, WM. 0. RAYMOND. 

